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Photo#30140
millipede - Comanchelus

millipede - Comanchelus
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA
June 23, 2004
Size: 1 - 2"
This one is black - I previously submitted one that was reddish brown. Could they both be Desert Millipede (Orthoporus ornatus)?

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.

Atopetholidae
This is a species of Comanchelus, a representative of the family Atopetholidae (order Spirobolida), another family of moderately large to large-bodied cylindrical millipedes occurring in the southwestern US.